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- Stamp Act 1765 (7443 bytes)
2: ... into effect on [[November 1]] of that year. It met with great resistance in the colonies and was nev...
6: ...me was 26 shillings whilst citizens of [[Massachusetts]] paid only around 1 shilling a year back to Lo...
8: ...f these taxes ranged from a half penny on a pamphlet or one-page newspaper to fifty pounds on a major ...
13: ...attacked by the French, [[Spain|Spanish]], and [[Netherlands|Dutch]] at various times, and they had be...
17: ...eld at [[Federal Hall]] in New York in October of 1765.
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- November 4 (10686 bytes)
15: ...tains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be c...
16: ...d|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
28: * [[1956]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungar... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
62: *[[Louis Abeille|Abeille, Louis]], (1765-1832), German composer
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
36: ...cob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), poet
57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974) - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
8: ...children. Her youngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be promised in marriage to Louis, h...
12: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the titl...
15: ...767); no surviving issue. [[Holy Roman Emperor]]: 1765; [[List of rulers of Austria|Archduke of Austria]...
17: ...lisabeth of Austria|HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth]] (1743-1808)
20: ...1745-1792); had issue. [[Grand Duke of Tuscany]]: 1765 (abdicated 1790); [[Holy Roman Emperor]]: 1790; [... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...tat. Six months later, on [[July 17]], [[1762]], Peter died from illness, but is rumored to have been ...
11: ...ine issued a charter that: allowed the gentry to petition the throne as a legal body; freed the nobles...
13: ...t, she established the [[Free Economic Society]] (1765) to encourage the modernization of agriculture an...
16: ...the [[Hermitage Museum]], [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]].]]
17: ...[ruble]]s to the creation of a "Northern Accord" between Russia, Prussia, Poland, Sweden, and perhaps ... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
5: ...He is also known as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown'', upon whi...
7: ...om he was constant for the rest of her life. His letters to her are among the most graphic of all the ...
10: ...ed a volume of bawdy stories, the ''Bijoux indiscrets'' (1748); in later years he repented of this wor...
14: ...any subject that he approached, that in this theoretic essay he suggests the possibility of teaching t...
16: His speculation in the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' was too hardy for the autho... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
21: ...shed power even though some others wanted him to retain that power for life (as [[monarch]]s and [[dic...
33: ...and showed coolness under fire in organizing the retreat. In Virginia, Washington was acclaimed as a h...
40: ...uel Leutze]], 1851, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art|Metropolitan Museum]]]]
41: ...l Army]] on [[June 15]], [[1775]]. The [[Massachusetts]] delegate [[John Adams]] suggested his appoint...
43: ...of Long Island]] on [[August 22]] but managed to retreat, saving most of his forces. However, several ... - John Hancock (8787 bytes)
8: ...siness, making him the wealthiest man in Massachusetts at the time.
10: Despite his wealth, Hancock remained, ethically and virtuously, the same. With his generos...
13: ... naturally disposed him to resist the [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]], which attempted to restrict colonial...
17: ...joke that "[[Samuel Adams|Sam Adams]] writes the letters [to newspapers] and John Hancock pays the pos...
19: ... its Committee of Safety. Under Hancock, Massachusetts raised bands of "[[Minutemen (militia)|minuteme... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...grated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boy...
24: ... [[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. ...
26: ...ngregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[17... - Eli Whitney (3270 bytes)
2: '''Eli Whitney''' ([[December 8]], [[1765]] - [[January 8]], [[1825]]) was an [[United Stat...
6: ...ppa]]. On [[January 6]], [[1817]] he married Henrietta Edwards and they had four children.
18: There exists question today over whether the cotton gin, which Whitney received a [[pat...
22: ...beginning in [[1798]] in a factory on the border between [[New Haven, Connecticut]] and [[Hamden, Conn... - James Watt (5070 bytes)
5: ...England]]. He was a key member of the [[Lunar Society]]. Many of his papers are in [[Birmingham Centra...
9: ...hematical-instrument making in [[London]] before returning to [[Glasgow]]
11: * [[1765]]: While wandering through the [[Glasgow Green]]'...
30: ...ral other things, not least a copying device for letters.
38: He is also remembered by the [[Lunar Society Moonstones|Moonstones]], two individual statues,... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
43: ...n Connecticut were English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, the "[[Fundame...
52: ... an ongoing civic pride and economic competition between Hartford and New Haven, which stems back to t...
54: ...flowing into Long Island Sound, Connecticut's outlet to the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. ''See: [[List of Conne...
56: ...he green may stand a small white church, a town meeting hall, a tavern and several colonial houses. Fo...
65: ...ions and their major cultural centers as each competes for tourists, new residents, and internal state... - Oregon (26551 bytes)
36: ... Range]] - form the two boundaries of the [[Willamette Valley]], one of the most fertile and agricultu...
49: ...iver. Fort Astoria was the first permanent white settlement in Oregon. In the [[War of 1812]], the [[B...
53: ... United States and [[British North America]] was set at the [[49th parallel]]. The [[Oregon Territory]...
55: Settlement increased due to the [[Donation Land Claim...
57: In the [[1880s]], railroads enabled marketing of the state's [[lumber]] and [[wheat]], as we... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
18: *[[Yamamoto Tsunetomo]] (1659-1719), Japanese Author of [[Hagakure]]
31: ...iation|NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]
37: ...ormer deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
48: *[[Peter W. Yates|Yates, Peter W.]], ([[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress...
54: *[[John Yau|Yau, John]], poet - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|im...
16: *[[Rembrandt]], ([[1606]]-[[1669]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[painter]]
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian pai...
30: *[[Pieter Aertsen]] ([[1508]]-[[1575]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
5: ==Alphabetical list==
26: *[[Arnold O. Beckman]], (1900 - 2004), [[pH]] meter
32: *[[Katherine Blodgett]], (1898-1979) — nonreflective [[glass]]
36: ...]], (1711-1787) — [[Croatia]], ring-[[micrometer]], water [[telescope]]
40: ...Germany]] and [[United States|USA]] — [[rocket]] technology - American Revolution (17069 bytes)
4: .... Most current interpretations fall somewhere in between these two positions.
7: ...riefly summarize the political, social, economic, etc. situations before the revolution, and the trend...
16: ...ywhere. Increased publication and communications between like-minded people opened new areas to questi...
28: ...cement became the practice. In [[1761]], Massachusetts lawyer [[James Otis]] argued that the writs vio...
30: ...ction. Grenville's policies were bringing them together. - Timeline of United States revolutionary history (1760-1789) (5450 bytes)
12: *[[1765]] - [[Stamp Act 1765|Stamp Act]] passed
13: *[[1765]] - [[Stamp Act Congress]] convenes
14: *[[1765]] - [[First Quartering Act]]
28: ** [[Massachusetts Government Act]] ([[May 20]]),
53: ....S. state)|Georgia]], [[Connecticut]], [[Massachusetts]], [[Maryland]], [[South Carolina]], [[New Hamp... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
2: ...[[Puritans]] of [[New England]], the gold-hungry settlers of [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]], and th...
13: ...f Great Britain|Britain]], [[France]], and the [[Netherlands]]. The lands that now make up the [[Unit...
16: ...h Monarchs|Queen]] [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth]]. At this time, however, there was no official ...
25: ...alled [[Virginia]] (named in honor of Queen Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen"). It lay on an island in t...
27: ... colonists had little incentive to protect their settlement or work towards its long-term growth. - History of California (38344 bytes)
13: ...ne]]'' and ''[[Tongva]]''. California holds a variety of unique [[ecosystem]]s and each tribe speciali...
19: ...ve of the [[Seven Cities of Cibola]] that had streets paved with gold and silver. About the same time,...
21: ...r|La Paz]], before experiencing difficulties and returning. Cortés accompanied expeditions in [[1534]...
40: ...] to the modern California-Oregon border before returning to Spain.
48: ...com.174}} or to keep the location of his port secret from them.
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